Live from the Dome: Favored Bama meets hungry Dogs!
That famous jokester Nick Saban leaves Mark Richt in stitches Friday. (AJC photo by Brant Sanderlin)
At the SEC Coaches’ Luncheon at the Hyatt on Friday, emcee Dave Neal asked Nick Saban if it was easier to keep a team motivated as a favorite, or if being an underdog was preferable. Whereupon Mark Richt said, “What does he know about being an underdog?”
Saban’s Crimson Tide is favored today by eight points over Richt’s Bulldogs, but an awful lot of folks — this correspondent included — are picking Georgia. Still, this matchup couldn’t have caught Saban unaware.
“Last summer I was at the lake (Burton, where every big-name college football coach has a summer house) and I was fooling around in the yard, and two guys rode up on JetSkis,” Saban told Richt at the luncheon. “One of them was your quarterback Aaron Murray and the other was your center (David Andrews). And they said, ‘We’ll see you in the SEC championship game.’ ”
And here both teams are, Alabama ranked No. 2 to Georgia’s No. 2, Alabama favored but not nearly a lock, Georgia trying to seize its biggest football moment in three decades. But you knew all that already. So enough of me talking.
I’ll be here until someone is the 2012 SEC champ, and I’d appreciate it if you’d join the fun and frolic. And I thank you, as ever, in advance.
By Mark Bradley
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Tide Rising
December 1st, 2012
4:51 pm
Dawgs got a good long pass. Still running into too many 3rd and longs by the bama d. You dont want to be in that situation against out D.
Buckeye
December 1st, 2012
4:51 pm
Ha! dogs already “should woulda coulda”
Roll tide!
December 1st, 2012
4:52 pm
stop crying..it was good call.u saw replay.
Circus World Daily
December 1st, 2012
4:52 pm
******* SPECIAL BULLETIN *******
Ringling Brothers has just announced that the circus has hired the entire UGA coaching staff. The assistant coaches will trade in their playbooks and whistles for clown costumes and painted faces. Mark Richt has been appointed as Head Clownmaster and will supervise all Ringling Brothers clowns.
Fred Ringling, owner of Ringling Brothers, gleefully announced that Richt was the most qualified clownmaster, having coached clowns at UGA for more than ten years. He then presented Richt and the assistants with their shiny new clown noses.
Richt acknowledged that the circus has been having difficulty hiring enough clowns in recent years, but his first act was to drop the requirement that clowns be able to read and write, and that it was okay if they had a rap sheet. “After all,” he said, “this policy worked well for me in Athens, where I was used to dealing with bozos.”
Please join with us in wishing Mark Richt well in his new position.
Jimmy
December 1st, 2012
4:52 pm
Why do we do quick slants over the middle?
Bama is mostly selling out on the blitz.
goFalcons
December 1st, 2012
4:52 pm
oh it is all in the game yo!!!!!! fools say my falcons not have a sign. win, well those idiots see sign., wins over my falcons
kingdaddy
December 1st, 2012
4:52 pm
Phil,
you were a complete douchebag during the Falcons game. Now you want to be a jerk here. You hate Ga. son???
playmeortrademe
December 1st, 2012
4:52 pm
Georgia won the quarter but has zero points to show for it. Not good.
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
4:52 pm
Punt.
Diggitydawg
December 1st, 2012
4:52 pm
Go for it. No man’s land
Roy
December 1st, 2012
4:53 pm
I just hope we don’t fade in the 2nd half
Buckeye
December 1st, 2012
4:53 pm
I’ll take Bama’s bleach blondes over the dog’s bleach blondes. The dogs have a tad more tummy, kinda like “Tub” Jenks.
goFalcons
December 1st, 2012
4:53 pm
Uga and falcons and braves in my blood hatters
Kyle
December 1st, 2012
4:53 pm
Very impressed with the defense and running game as usual but other than the kicker Murray is the weakest link. I don’t see what other people see in this guy.
Al Bundy
December 1st, 2012
4:53 pm
A blocked kick or a botched snap would be nice!
Jimmy
December 1st, 2012
4:53 pm
Why “don’t” we do quick slants?
bravesilove
December 1st, 2012
4:53 pm
we got this
Dawgify
December 1st, 2012
4:54 pm
Alabama cheerleaderbots.
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
4:54 pm
UGA fake works. Pass.
Sam
December 1st, 2012
4:54 pm
Wow
kingdaddy
December 1st, 2012
4:54 pm
Fakerooski….
phil
December 1st, 2012
4:54 pm
Yes sir!
Hahahahaha
Roy
December 1st, 2012
4:54 pm
Wow! We got it! Fake!
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
4:54 pm
Lynch to Commings.
bravesilove
December 1st, 2012
4:54 pm
uga get punch in the mouth
Jimmy
December 1st, 2012
4:54 pm
BABY~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Buckeye
December 1st, 2012
4:54 pm
Tha’t was pretty ballsy, especially after Bama’s muff.
Knockahoma
December 1st, 2012
4:54 pm
Very nice.
Al Bundy
December 1st, 2012
4:54 pm
WOW! Great play!
Dawgify
December 1st, 2012
4:54 pm
WHAT?!
Tide Rising
December 1st, 2012
4:54 pm
Luck. The only thing that will keep the dawgs in the game.
dean
December 1st, 2012
4:54 pm
Ballsy call
secson
December 1st, 2012
4:54 pm
That’s what I’m talking about
falconsrus
December 1st, 2012
4:54 pm
Oh He ll yea
rivercard
December 1st, 2012
4:54 pm
Jimmy – I agree Bama is selling out on blitz . quick slants etc are there to be had. Also looks like GA can run on edges
Duck Soup
December 1st, 2012
4:54 pm
Great fake!
playmeortrademe
December 1st, 2012
4:55 pm
OK NOW SCORE A TD!!
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
4:55 pm
Georgia is so moved by its success that it calls timeout
phil
December 1st, 2012
4:55 pm
Idiots kill the momentum. Fire richt!
bravesilove
December 1st, 2012
4:55 pm
love our teams ans SI KISS OUR BUTT loserville this punk
Buckeye
December 1st, 2012
4:55 pm
Will dogs capitalize?
I predict wide right.
We (did) Run The East
December 1st, 2012
4:55 pm
Trickery will only get u so far. AL defense looks stout.
kingdaddy
December 1st, 2012
4:56 pm
Can you believe Richt called a fake? Just what we needed…
Russa
December 1st, 2012
4:56 pm
fake punt = great , not having the next play ready in time and wasting a TO = bad
sonofadawg
December 1st, 2012
4:56 pm
Bama’s secondary will be the reason we will win. They are to young and inexperienced
Sam
December 1st, 2012
4:56 pm
What wa
bravesilove
December 1st, 2012
4:56 pm
hey phil u call uggla struggla and ur kind not needed any more
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
4:56 pm
First career pass for Arthur Lynch, first career catch by Commings
Sam
December 1st, 2012
4:57 pm
What the. Bad coaching on that timeout
bravesilove
December 1st, 2012
4:57 pm
ga dance and strut these days h8ters hate on